More bots including curation guild bots added to the botlist
I just added many more bots, many of those curation guild bots that vote on the guild members.
This is a community. It primarily votes on community members. So, not adding it would be discriminatory.
Moonbot is a bot to which you can subscribe for 4 Steem and it will give you 40 cents votes on your posts.
A bot run by steemit witness ausitbank.
Aussie bot. Votes on 200 plus aussies. Run by ausitbank.
It is a curation guild. In their own words:
Steemsquad is an initiative of multiple minnows whose objective is to promote diverse and quality content and their work which may not have a chance to get noticed when published in the main streem. STEEMSQUAD initiative will try to tweak the game to equally distribute the wealth among its members.
Run by a steemit witness. Anyone can get votes from it by visiting steemgigs discord server's post-promotion channel.
Has automated steemvoter rules set to vote for specific users.
I routinely monitor the new posts and check if they are using any bots or not. If I find them, I keep track of them and when I find enough bots (about 6-10), I add them to the list and fork. This is to ensure no one is able to get extra votes by using bots.
Actually, using bots in steem is perfectly normal. But using them in posts someone published via Utopian is not perceived positively.
Update: Added more bots. "businessbot", "themanualbot", "stackin" and "steem-untalented". Stackin is selling votes.
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Found two more @steem-untalented and @themanualbot
Please check their profile first?
One of the bots have voted on my post. It appears to vote on mentions.
Thanks for the list. I really did not know so many existed.
Hello @littleboy. Can you find more? Unfortunately I cannot yet accept this contribution since you have already done this change several times and adding 7 bots a time cannot be seen as a work that should be highly rewarded. Please try to find some more bots. If you can get to 15-20 more I will accept this contribution. Another thing we really need is to check we are not including humans in there. I got some complaints. Can you do this review and update the post? Thanks
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Added four more including the ones I mentioned earlier. Also, at least two of them voted on me (they work on mentions. anyone who mentions them will get votes) leading to loss of my overall voting power share.
As for the complain, it is about two bots, votey and viraltrends. Both of the accounts were newly created, have no activity other then votes, voting on specific users posts. Also their names, votey and viraltrends indicates that they are most likely curation bots. So I added them. Also, viraltrend is voting on a specific a lot.
Wouldn't you agree that this should be on the botlist?
Another one added. That's about 12. Also, your general manager is using many of them. I got some from manish's upvote list.
He has a history of:
Resteeming abusive posts.
Making alleagtions against others without any real proof.
His pal tech trends once got blacklisted by cheetah.
Keeping him as a manager might bring in strong criticism from those who are concerned about his history of abuse.
Who is him? Tell me on Discord.
I didn't know @themanualbot is a real bot. It surely is indicated in his profile that BOT means Best Of Time. @littleboy do more research. It's pretty obvious he's a real person. He's a Utopian Moderator, a Bayanihan Curator, Curie Curator, part of Steemph Core and a Sndbox member as well.
Approved in Utopian.
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